What
does the term,“Conservative” define in the political spectrum?
Not much anymore. Is there such a thing as a Hegelian “Right”?
The appointment of Carly Fiorina to the American Conservative Union’s
Educational arm may reveal an answer. Her appointment caught this writer’s
attention when it was reported in San Jose Mercury News, 9/29/13.

American
Conservative Union Chairman, Al Cardenas, waxed eloquent about Carly
Fiorina’s “conservative philosophy” saying, “It’s
one thing to be a conservative among friends; it’s quite another
to be an unapologetic public conservative in California.”

That
description of a public unapologetic conservative in California doesn’t
fit the Fiorina known here in Silicon Valley. The record shows no evidence
of Fiorina Republicanism being aligned with the conservative wing of
the GOP. She worked with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s transition team
when he was elected Governor. San Jose Mercury News headlines (3/2/2005)
“shouted,” “FIORINA A STRONG CONTENDER FOR WORLD BANK
CHIEF JOB.” That was just three weeks after her dismissal as chief
executive of Hewlett-Packard.

In
2008, San Jose local TV news reported Fiorina had been appointed to
a high level position in the Republican Party to oversee the National
Republican Party Victory Fund which were funds for McCain and other
candidates. McCain praised her as a “good friend of his”
in a letter introducing her as the chair of the Victory Fund 2008. There
was early “talk” about her being considered as McCain’s
Vice Presidential choice.

During
her own campaign for Senate, it was revealed in the California media
that she only voted in five of the eighteen preceding elections. According
to www.capoliticalnews.com,
July 11,2009, records showed that her Fiorina Foundation had never registered
with the IRS or the state Attorney General’s Charitable Trust
division, which tax exempt charities are required to do.

She
ran against a Republican candidate with more demonstrated conservative
credentials in the primary election to challenge Senator Barbara Boxer
in the general election. It was conjectured that a woman with name identification
would be a better candidate to challenge Boxer. Fiorina and Meg Whitman
(running for Governor) endedup being the two female former tech titans
who both lost.

Fiorina’s
loss may have reflected the fact of her being possibly the most disliked
personin the public eye after running the iconic Hewlett-Packard Corporation
into the ground resulting in massive joblosses. The family members of
the founders of H-P refused to endorse her candidacy for Senate, they
actively worked against her campaign by sending out letters explaining
why.

However,
all of the above hardly being a picture resembling anyone’s traditional
“conservative,” is minor compared to what came to light
in an article about a speech delivered by Fiorina at the Progress and
Freedom Foundation Seventh Annual Summit at Aspen, CO in 2001. The San
Jose Mercury reported: “Hewlett-Packard’s Chief Executive
Officer, Carly Fiorina, opened the conference with a scholarly address.
She did not give interviews, but she did mention a reporter in her speech—a
young guy who couldn’t spell the name of the 19th Century philosopher,
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (as in “Hegel you know, the process
of Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis? I use it every day,” said Fiorina).
(San Jose Mercury 8/27/2001-Jennifer Files reporter).

The
San Jose Mercury published this writer’s following letterto the
editor in response to the article. (9/2/2001)

“Hewlett
Packard CEO Carly Fiorina’s reported “Getaway to Aspen parallels
valley lifestyle, mindset” makes an astonishing remark in her
opening address to a recent conference of tech leaders in Aspen, Colorado.
Hailing the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s dialectic
process, she claims to ‘use it every day. Karl Marx preached it,
Nicolai Lenin implemented it in Russia in the early 20th Century and
now we have Hegel’s dialectic preached and practiced in 21st Century
high–tech industry. And all this time we were led to believe communism
was dead! —Mary Thonpson

The
reporter only touched the tip of the iceberg of the entire speech in
which Fiorina elaborated re: her devotion the idea of the Hegelian Dialectic
as a tool for decision making. She suggested the synthesis of the status
of schools to be “charter schools.” The
entire speech is still available on line.

If
anyone had a residual doubt that there exists a ”right”
which has been commandeered by forcesmore attuned to what has been identified
with the “left,” the ACU appointing an admirer of Hegel
should dispel those doubts.

The
Hegelian Dialectical Process lurks around the tech industry. It is a
“systems” theory in and of itself. It has no fixed immutable
“givens.” The Delphi Technique is related to it and PPBS
fits the concept as well.

The
Hegelian Dialectic Process itself precludes a practitioner from holding
fixed principles. A thesis (idea) is pitted against an antithesis (opposing
idea) to arrive at a synthesis (an idea resembling neither the thesis
nor the antithesis, but a “third way.” The “third
way” then becomes the “Thesis” and the Process starts
all over again. It is never ending. A practitioner of the Dialectical
Process can never commit to decisions based on established fact or objective
sources or fixed documents. Hegelian Dialectic is a thought process
of “shifting sand” never ending sequences of “syntheses.”
The Bible has a description for it. “…ever learning and
never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. ”(II Timothy
3:7)

The
permeating influence of Hegel’s dialectic in the 21st Century
can’t be overestimated. The breakdown of the concept of “givens”
for any foundation of society is being accomplished. In religion, Hegel’s
influence is reflected in the Historical Critical method of Biblical
study, resulting in the idea of man’s influence over Scripture
as opposed to the idea of the writers’ of God’s Word being
inspired of God. The state of organized churches and the incessant stream
of ever changing Bible translations reflect that.

The
collectivism of Hegel’s ideas has played out and continues to
plague individuals and constitutions written to protect the interests
of the individual. The 19th Century devotes’ of Hegel’s
dialecticwere classified as the “Hegelian Right” and the
“Hegelian Left.” Are we seeing the prongs of Hegelian followers
now also representing a “Hegelian Right” as well as a “Hegelian
Left”? It would seem so!

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As
the terminology, whether organizations or individuals, defining themselves
as “Conservatives” is no longer definitive, we need to begin
to ask and observe….[1] Are organizations and/or individuals traditional
constitutional conservatives who accept the constitution as the founderswrote
and intended it ? [2] Do they express and defend principles based on
objective proven sources? [3] Are they practitioners of the “Hegelian
Right”?

But
first, self- identified “conservatives” had better bone
up on some 19th Century German historical figures and history to discern
21st Century trends still being influenced by them and being manifested
by both right and left in the USA today.

Mary has a degree
from Michigan State, her home state. Mary relocated with her husband to
California where she became active in Republican Party, then as an early
activist opposing innovations in schools which were emanating from Washington
resulting from the passage of ESEA. She formed an organization with another
mother and political activist to become a research source for information
and opposition to the imposition of an all inclusive curricula in the
nation's schools, called Family Life Education as well as PPBS, the management
by objectives system used to accomplish the acceptance of FLE. During
that effort, party activism was abandoned to concentrate on issues before
becoming a small business owner with her husband until the 1990's.

In 2001 Mary
became an individual plaintiff in association with the Silicon Valley
Taxpayers Association in a lawsuit against the Santa Clara County Open
Space Authority which ultimately resulted in a favorable unanimous decision
by the California State Supreme Court in 2008. Following that court decision
she was the class representative for negotiations allowing property owners
to receive refunds for the illegal OSA assessment.